Because of the dozens of Roman arrows and ballista stones unearthed in Yofat? Lending credence to Josephus’ account of the last stand and the suicide pact he made with his men. For which we have the *Josephus Problem* or *Roman Roulette*.

(1) and his 40 other comrades were captured in a cave during the seige of (2) …. Rather than “apne aapko Romans ke havale karna” they decided to commit harakiri and started to do so for every third person… By some stroke of luck he and one of the comrade were saved … Promptly they decided to throw this suicide plan to winds and surrendered themselves…

After gazillions of years people started to wonder if ever they were found stuck in such a situation (or in a situation where many must determine that who will bat first in a group of three or four) they must have a trick handy to end up as the final ones… Hence came the Josephus Problem…

According to Josephus, however, in circumstances that are somewhat unclear, Josephus found himself trapped in a cave with forty of his companions (at A). The Romans asked him to surrender once they discovered where he was, but his companions refused to allow this. He therefore suggested a method of collective suicide: they draw lots and killed each other, one by one, counting to every third person. The sole survivor of this process was Josephus (this method as a mathematical problem is referred to as the Josephus problem, or Roman Roulette

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Josephus.
First Jewish-Roman war. He tried to end the rebellion by negotiating with Judeans on Titus’s behalf.